[Hiring] Staff Backend Engineer - Submission Processing @Kalepa

Role Description

We are looking for engineers who enjoy going deep on hard problems and owning end-to-end outcomes. As a Staff engineer on the Submission Processing team, you’ll work at the intersection of AI and backend engineering and have major ownership and agency:

• Design the systems
• Make architectural calls under ambiguity
• Play a key role in setting the technical direction for the team

You’ll be working on building and scaling LLM-based systems that process billions of highly unstructured data points on a daily basis, extract precise information, and surface insights that insurers rely on for high-stakes decisions. This is a problem the industry hasn't solved effectively yet, and you'll be working on cutting-edge challenges that require creativity and ambition. We're a small team where individual contributions have an outsized impact on both our technology and our business.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience
• Embody hustle and grit, excellent at your craft and relentless in pursuing it
• Take full ownership of your work and drive projects to completion with minimal oversight
• Communicate proactively, surfacing blockers, asking the right questions, keeping stakeholders in the loop
• Thrive on experimentation: comfortable testing ideas, measuring results, and iterating quickly on problems no one has solved before
• Strong fundamentals in system design, debugging, and problem-solving
• Experience with LLMs in production and understand what it takes to deploy them at scale
• Experience with AWS and serverless technologies (Lambda, EC2), asynchronous workflows, and cloud environments
• Know Python (our main stack), though we’re open to strong candidates from other OO backgrounds
• Comfortable with relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL
• Excited by problems others are struggling with

Requirements

• Bonus: experience with document pipelines and processing large amounts of data

Benefits

• Competitive salary (based on experience level)*
• Significant equity options package
• Work with an ambitious, smart, global, and fun team to transform a $7T global industry
• 20 days of PTO a year
• Global team offsites
• 100% covered PPO medical, 100% covered vision and dental for individuals and families
• Healthy living/gym stipend
• Mobile phone bill stipend
• Continuing education credits
• 401(k) plan with employer contribution (regardless of employee contribution)